Wendy Krupnick, PhD, MBA, OTR/L

Associate Professor and Director

Occupational Therapy Program

Philadelphia University

School House Lane & Henry Avenue

Philadelphia, PA 19144

Member of Philadelphia University Faculty since 2008

Office: Hayward Hall Room 224

Phone: 215/ 951-2530

Email: KrupnickW@PhilaU.edu

Educational Background

2004      PhD, Occupational Therapy, Nova Southeastern University

Dissertation: Caregiver Well-being and Occupational Lifestyle Enrichment

1983      MBA, Marketing, George Washington University

1975      BS, Occupational Therapy, Boston University

Wendy has held a variety of education, administrative and consultative positions within business and health settings, including the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) where she served as director of Public Affairs, the American Public Health Association (APHA), and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). Prior to coming to Philadelphia University she served as the Occupational Therapy Program Director at The Sage Colleges in upstate New York. Her clinical experience includes both mental health and pediatrics. In addition to directing the occupational therapy program, her teaching responsibilities include seminars around occupational performance, professional issues, and developing a practice platform.

Current Teaching Responsibilities

OCC 612 Foundations for Practice Seminar

OCC 615 Assistive Device Design

OCC 751 Professional Issues & Trends

OCC 760 Practice Platform Seminar

Research Interests

Transgenerational Design

Caregiver Support and Well-Being

Occupational Lifestyle Enrichment

Professional Activities

• Awarded fellowship and completed leadership/ mentoring program sponsored by AOTA and AOTF
• Member of the Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Institutional Biosafety Committee (2007-2008).
• Member, Professional Program Directors Council, American Occupational Therapy Association
• Member, American Occupational Therapy Association
• Member, Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association
• Member, New York State Occupational Therapy Association, Capital District Chapter (1993-2008)
• Roster of Evaluators, Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (1998-2000)

Selected Scholarly Activities

Leonard, M., & Krupnick, W. (2009, September). Transgenerational Design: Design for Every Age, Paper presented at the national conference of the Industrial Design Society, Miami, FL.

Krupnick, W. (2009, April). Becoming an Occupational Therapist: Reflections on Professional Growth and Identity, Poster presented at the annual confernece of the American Occupational Therapy Association, Long Beach, CA.

Krupnick, W. (2004, June). Caregiver Well-being and Occupational Lifestyle Enrichment: A Comparative Case Study. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association, Minneapolis, MN.

 

Krupnick, W. (2003). Caregiver well-being and occupational lifestyle enrichment: A comparative case study (Doctoral dissertation, Nova Southeastern University, 2003). Dissertation Abstracts International.

 

Krupnick, W., & Bartolacci, G. (2002, May). Role-Emerging Fieldwork, Learning Benefits and Supervision Models: A Critical Appraisal of the Literature. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association, Miami, FL.

 

Krupnick, W., Brown, K., Stutz-Tanenbaum, P. (11 March 2002). Creating a successful fieldwork experience: The fieldwork experience assessment tool, OT Practice 7(5), CE1-CE8.

 

Krupnick, W. (2001, November). Improving Students’ Occupational Functioning at Fieldwork: The Occupational Adaptation Approach to Supervision. Paper presented at the annual conference of the NYS Occupational Therapy Association, Albany, NY.

 

Atler, K., Brown, K., Griswold, L., Krupnick, W., Muniz de Melendez, L. & Stutz-Tanenbaum, P. (1998, April). Characteristics of a Positive Fieldwork Experience. One-day institute presented at the annual conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association, Baltimore, MD.

 

Krupnick, W. (1998, April). Fieldwork Settings: Research for Understanding and Decision Making. Panel member at the American Occupational Therapy Foundation Research Forum, Baltimore, MD.

 

Krupnick, W. (1996). The targeting of communications.  In The occupational therapy manager (2nd ed., pp. 117-141). Rockville, MD: American Occupational Therapy Association.

 

Philadelphia University Committees and Service

Graduate Council

2009 Summer Faculty DEC Grant, Design for Aging -- Bathrooms